Pennsylvanians responded in kind ; a violent attack on Cresap in October 1730 escalated the situation into a series of bitter ( if not bloody ) militia skirmishes and heated legal battles.

Garibaldi led the station's security forces in a defence of the station, after a bitter and bloody fight the invading marines were defeated and forced to surrender.

During the course of the battle in the early hours of the 14th, men of the battalion launched a bayonet charge on the stout Argentinian defenders which resulted in bitter and bloody fighting, and was one of the last bayonet charges by the British Army.

This amendment was to eradicate the bitter, and sometimes bloody, contests amongst Yanabihi to the skins of Yani.

The most notable example of this was his refusal to agree to an invasion of Naggaroth: while he was aware that the High Elves could likely destroy the Dark Elves in their weakened state, he feared that such a bloody and bitter war would leave so many dead that the extinction of the Elven race would be assured.

This resulted in a long, bitter feud that lasted for six months, included several bloody match-ups and finally culminated at WrestleMania.

A pacifist, Gordianus shows a successive bitter criticism to the deeds of almost all historical characters shown in the series and their harsh and bloody consequences on ordinary Romans.

The 1970s were also marked by bitter rivalry with the JRCL Revolutionary Marxist Faction ( Kakumaru-ha ), who broke off in 1963 and were engaged in a bloody " war " against other leftist militant groups, including Chūkaku-ha, the Japanese Section of the Fourth International ( United Secretariat ).

3, 3 ; February 1935 ) A group of bitter men the " League of War " plans to plunge the whole Earth into War starting with bloody and organized murder in the heart of Europe.

The Red Army race to take the Reichstag and Reich Chancellery condemned the troops to bitter and bloody street fighting.

At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness.

By 407, the estrangement between the eastern and western courts had become so bitter that it threatened civil war.

Davros is a mad scientist from the planet Skaro whose people, the Kaleds, were engaged in a bitter thousand-year war of attrition with their enemies, the Thals.

The Kaleds are locked in a bitter thousand-year war of attrition for supremacy of their home-world with a species called the Thals.

No one doubted Germany's economic and engineering prowess ; the question was how long bitter memories of the war would cause Europeans to distrust Germany, and whether Germany could demonstrate it had rejected totalitarianism and militarism and embraced democracy and human rights.

In an effort to win independence, Zionists now waged a bitter guerrilla war against the British.

A bitter war of words developed between Braid and the leading exponents of Mesmerism.

After half of all humanity perishes in the conflict, the war settled into a bitter stalemate lasting over 8 months.

Also, the typically multi-ethnic Byzantine force was always racked by dissension and lack of command unity, a similar situation also being encountered among the Sassanids who had been embroiled in a bitter civil war for a decade before the coming of the Arabs.

During the 17th century, the Algonquians and Hurons fought a bitter war against the Iroquois.

The remainder of the war featured a siege of Paris, the city was ” ineffectually bombarded ”; the new French republican regime then tried, without success, to relieve Paris with various hastily assembled armies and increasingly bitter partisan warfare.

Later in October 1965 he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until being forced to leave in 1978, after then-Vice President Saddam Hussein told him that it's better to leave ( the two countries would fight a bitter eight year war 1980 – 1988 only a year after the two reached power in 1979 ) after which he went to Neauphle-le-Château, suburb of Paris, France on a tourist visa, apparently not seeking political asylum, where he stayed for four months.

In the latter part of the century the Greeks became locked in a bitter war among themselves, with the major cities Athens and Sparta competing for absolute domination.

Indonesia declared independence in 17 August 1945 and subsequently fought a bitter war against the returning Dutch ; the Philippines was granted independence by the United States in 1946 ; Burma secured their independence from Britain in 1948, and the French were driven from Indochina in 1954 after a bitterly fought war ( the Indochina War ) against the Vietnamese nationalists.

Raeder and Wegener were once friends, having began their careers as ensigns in 1894 abroad the cruiser Deutschland, but their differing concepts of future strategy turned them into the most bitter of enemies, and the two officers were to spent much of the 1920s waging a war in print over what the Navy should or should not had done in the First World War and what were the correct lessons of the recent conflict for the future.

It was a very bitter war, a total war, and that is something that I am afraid has been lost to history .... he presence of the Loyalists ( colonists who did not want to join the fight for independence from Britain ) meant that the War of Independence was a conflict of complex loyalties.

Milyukov waged a bitter war against ' Trotskyism ' " as early as 1905 ".

< p > In 1927, when the struggle reached an especially bitter stage, Stalin declared at a session of the Central Committee, addressing himself to the Opposition: “ Those cadres can be removed only by civil war !” What was a threat in Stalin ’ s words became, thanks to a series of defeats of the European proletariat, a historic fact.

A bitter civil war broke out resulting in Alfonso's being forced in 1282 to accept Sancho as his heir instead of his young grandsons ; only the cities of Seville, Murcia and Badajoz remained faithful to him.

Uruguay, then known as the Province of the Eastern Bank of the Uruguay River, was considered a somewhat breakaway Province, since Montevideo served as the seat of the Royalist Viceroy Francisco Javier de Elío during its war on the May Revolution ; and that, after the independentists victory, the Province became the main stronghold of the Federal League leader José Gervasio Artigas, who waged a long and bitter dispute during the 1810s against the Unitarians about the shape the national organization would have.

A bitter border war followed between the kings.

" In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey ( known today as Benin ) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter war on their neighbours, resulting in the capture of 10, 000, including another important slave trader, the King of Whydah.

As He listens to the screaming of the shells, the crashing of monstrous guns, all the ghastly symphony of the reddest war mankind has ever known, His heart must recognize the bitter truth in the statement of one of the world's foremost educators — That in nineteen centuries Civilization has failed to accept honestly the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Actually, the dispute between Parker and the society of his time, both ecclesiastical and social, was a real one, a bitter one.

Conflict between the two was constant and bitter in the following years.

A bitter, and very public, dispute ensued between those, like Edmund Grindal and Richard Cox, who wished to preserve in exile the exact form of worship of the 1552 Prayer Book ; and those, like John Knox the pastor of the congregation, who regarded that book as still partially tainted with compromise.

The document was drawn up with the explicit concern of bringing to an end the bitter inter tribal fighting between the clans of the Aws ( Aus ) and Khazraj within Medina.

The bitter struggle between the KMT and the CPC continued, openly or clandestinely, through the 14-year long Japanese occupation of various parts of the country ( 1931 – 1945 ).

Two civil wars resulted from bitter rivalry between the Conservative and Liberal parties.

It was renamed Concord in 1765 by Governor Benning Wentworth following a bitter boundary dispute between Rumford and the town of Bow ; the city name was meant to reflect the new concord, or harmony, between the disputant towns.

The book contains correspondence, sometimes " bitter ", between Elsie and Frances.

Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film, The Prestige ( 2006 ), which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century.

Huayna Capac's sudden death and followed days later by the Incan heir apparent from a strange disease, described by one smallpox precipitated a bitter power struggle between Huáscar, whose mother was Coya ( meaning Empress ) Mama Rahua Occillo and legetimate heir, and Atahualpa, a son who, borne to a Quitu princess, and reputedly his father's " favorite.

In the following years a bitter rivalry between Tesla and Edison, known as the " War of Currents ", took place over the preferred method of distribution.

A bitter rivalry between the Earl of Essex and Robert Cecil, son of Lord Burghley, and their respective adherents, for the most powerful positions in the state marred politics.

The collapse of the Russian Empire following the February and October Revolutions of 1917 spurred the collapse of the Grand Duchy of Finland, and the resultant power vacuum led to bitter conflict between the left-leaning labor movement, led by the Social Democrats, and more conservative non-socialists.

Technicians from Taiwan were contracted by large producers in 1991 to help develop laboratory larvae, but bitter feuds developed between independent shrimpers and the corporations.

Wounded feelings gave rise to a bitter three-way quarrel between Rousseau and Madame d ' Epinay ; her lover, the philologist Grimm ; and their mutual friend, Diderot, who took their side against Rousseau.

There is some overlap between the weakest styles of bitter and light mild, with the term AK being used to refer to both.

According to Soviet advisors ( in 1987 ), a bitter debate within the party had broken out between those who advocated the islamisation of the party and those who wanted to defend the gains of the Saur Revolution.

" Over the years, there were bitter exchanges between Laennec and Dupuytren, the latter objecting that there was no mention of his work in this area and his role in its discovery.

It contains many of the elements still associated with the legend, from the Nottingham setting to the bitter enmity between Robin and the local sheriff.

A bitter feud developed between the two, with several of Rhys's other sons becoming involved.

The ensuing priority dispute between Galileo and Scheiner, neither of whom knew of the Fabricius ' work, was thus as pointless as it was bitter.

There had also been bitter enmity between Saddam and Khomeini since the 1970s.